by STEAM Team | Sep 10, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 09/09/2021 Today’s fact may not be fun, but it needs to be said. In 2019, an estimated 500 million plastic straws were being used each day in the United States alone. Since then, some cities and companies have tried to eliminate plastic straws, but,...
by STEAM Team | Sep 10, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 08/09/2021 Why does it rain? Rain occurs when clouds become saturated with water vapor and begin to condense. Clouds are, themselves, composed of water vapor droplets, which bump into each other and interact inside the cloud. As they collide, the...
by STEAM Team | Sep 8, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 07/09/2021 What does stove gas smell like? Your first answer to that question would probably be something along the lines of ‘rotten eggs’ due to the strong smell we associate with gas. But did you know that natural gas and propane, which are...
by STEAM Team | Sep 7, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 06/09/2021 If you’ve taken a science class before, you probably know that air is mostly nitrogen, followed, in terms of abundance, by oxygen. But what are the exact percentages, and what else makes up air? The atmosphere is approximately 78% nitrogen,...
by STEAM Team | Sep 3, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 03/09/2021 Yesterday’s fact explored RGB or RGBA as common ways to represent colors. Another commonly used color type is called hex (short for hexadecimal). This type of code consists of a hash symbol (#) followed by six digits, which may be letters...
by STEAM Team | Sep 3, 2021 | Daily Fact
Fact of the Day: 02/09/2021 Did you know that there are multiple ways to specify a color? You can name the color—for example, “white”—or you can use a color type to specify to a computer which color to render. RGB (or RGBA) is a common way to express colors, and it is...
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